Andrew Blevins

@andrew0blevins

context appreciator | writing http://andrewblevins.substack.com | suggestion box http://bit.ly/3xm5773

Brooklyn, NY

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Joined October 2022

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Andrew Blevins

@andrew0blevins

Apr 1

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My particular spiritual path has been a strange combination of severely alienated karma, anarchism and personal sovereignty, and a decade and a half of almost completely solo meditative practice. More than almost any of my other meditative friends, I am now pro authority, pro…

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Oshan Jarow

@OshanJarow

Nov 11

Is anyone aware of well produced narrative podcast series about meditation, other than the FT look at bad Goenka experiences? *not podcasts that do one-off interview episodes, but narratively structured podcast series

OshanJarow's tweet image. Is anyone aware of well produced narrative podcast series about meditation, other than the FT look at bad Goenka experiences?

*not podcasts that do one-off interview episodes, but narratively structured podcast series

Andrew Blevins

@andrew0blevins

Nov 12

- Solve for everydayness - Make contexts with friends - Focus on enjoyment Valuable thread

Parth

@mr_samosaman

Nov 12

after struggling for years with doing anything consistently, in the last 6 months i've integrated several practices into my life. the basic move has been, "solve for doing this every day." the cheat codes have been: doing things socially, with some reward, every day

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Parth

@mr_samosaman

Nov 12

a secret key to improvement here has been that for two of these things i'm working with people who are better than me at that domain, and i'm grateful to them. @andrew0blevins is an incredible meditation teacher and coach and i highly recommend working with him.

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Parth

@mr_samosaman

Nov 7

opening awareness meditation journal this morning any other evolving ground enjoyers? cc @andrew0blevins @_awbery_

Andrew Blevins

@andrew0blevins

Nov 7

It's kind of crazy that you can't just directly assign weights to people on the feed to decide how much you'll see of each of them

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David Chapman

@Meaningness

Nov 7

I've often found it puzzling that what I write contains no original ideas, and yet it's not like anything else. This, from @everytstudies' delightful new book (prepublication draft!) explains that to me better than I've been able to:

Meaningness's tweet image. I've often found it puzzling that what I write contains no original ideas, and yet it's not like anything else. This, from @everytstudies' delightful new book (prepublication draft!) explains that to me better than I've been able to:

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Andrew McLuhan

@amicusadastra

Oct 16

Day 10 of “I can’t believe @joerogan hasn’t had someone on yet to talk about McLuhan.”

Andrew McLuhan

@amicusadastra

Oct 6

it’s actually wild that @joerogan hasn’t had someone on yet to talk about McLuhan.

Andrew Blevins

@andrew0blevins

Oct 15

Rationalism is a genre of writing where the more speculative you say your argument is, the more persuasive it becomes

Andrew Blevins

@andrew0blevins

Oct 2

Find presence of awareness in the dimension of nothing rhyming with orange

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LL Cool Mom

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Sep 1

Is your project about "supporting community," or are you trying to make a group of friends?

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Visakan Veerasamy

@visakanv

Sep 3

the words 'janitor' and 'january' both are named for Janus, the ancient roman god of frames, of doorways and dualities, of time and transitions, of beginnings and endings

visakanv's tweet image. the words 'janitor' and 'january' both are named for Janus, the ancient roman god of frames, of doorways and dualities, of time and transitions, of beginnings and endings

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Oshan Jarow

@OshanJarow

Sep 3

> "the body is not an independent object but 'an interface that becomes more and more describable as it learns to be affected by more and more elements.'"

OshanJarow's tweet image. &gt; "the body is not an independent object but 'an interface that becomes more and more describable as it learns to be affected by more and more elements.'"

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Peter McEwen

@techgnostic

Aug 30

Perhaps it's no accident that multiple approaches to befriending difficult emotions are emerging simultaneously. Links in comments. 😊 I just posted "A Simple Practice for Meeting and Metabolizing Difficult Emotions" see also 'Choices in Feeling' by @degenerateyogi and…

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Charlie Awbery

@_awbery_

Aug 30

I co-authored a post with @andrew0blevins, Choices in Feeling. The "choices" part is about different ways that we can relate to emotional reactivity. The post covers self-regulation (the mainstream approach) and Liberating Emotion (an unconventional approach) the contemporary…